François Caillat

The Many Lives of Edouard Louis (2023)

The metamorphosis of a young boy from a sub-proletarian background in Picardy into a star of French cultural life. Édouard Louis, who in a few years has become the spokesman writer of a generation, encourages each of us to make permanent transformation a ...

Foucault Against Himself (2014)

In both his private and public life, Foucault often contradicted himself, especially when his ideas collided with the institutions where he worked. Contemporary critics and philosophers reframe their legacy in an effort to build new ways of thinking about ...

Une jeunesse amoureuse (2013)

Médecins de Brousse (2012)

Throughout the colonial period, military doctors accompanied France's colonial army. On the one hand, they served their troops, but on the other hand, they also helped the local population. They saw themselves as humanitarians who helped treat and contain ...

Bienvenue à Bataville (2008)

Julia Kristeva, étrange étrangère (2005)

The film presents Julia Kristeva during a few interviews, conducted in Paris, which allow us to discover her thinking. They accompany different sequences of her personal life: on the Ile de Ré, where she spent long periods in the company of her husband, t ...

L'affaire Valérie (2004)

A film-maker travels through mountain villages and along the shores of Alpine lakes to investigate the disappearance of Valérie 20 years earlier. She allegedly murdered a Canadian tourist before disappearing without a trace. At least that is how the narra ...

La quatrième génération (1997)

Over a century, the saga of a Lorraine lineage of wood industrialists. Rise and fall, through the vicissitudes of a province torn between its French identity and its annexation to Germany. ...

L'état des lieux (1979)

Une jeunesse amoureuse (2013)